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Hebron, where Sarah was buried, is very significant because all three patriarchs were buried there. It should also be noted that when David became King of Judah, he chose to make Hebron Israel’s first capital city. No doubt his choice was connected to the great reverence attached to Hebron due to it being the burial […]

In response to Abraham’s request that a piece of property be “given” to him, the residents of the area respond with what seems to be a courtly gesture of extravagant generosity. “Hear us, my Lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead; none of us shall […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 23. For the King James Version, click here. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. As is so characteristic of the Bible, in a matter-of-fact fashion we are told that Abraham’s beloved wife Sarah passed away at the ripe age of 127 years old. Abraham mourned his wife and then […]

I think we all have a tendency to relegate certain portions of the Scripture to the “NOT IMPORTANT” box in our brains. Maybe it’s the chapters containing the loooooong genealogies. Or all of the minute details concerning the construction of the wilderness tabernacle. Or how about the countless purity laws outlined for us in Leviticus? […]

For Isaac’s sacrifice, God commanded Abraham to go to the “Land of Moriah” to a certain mountaintop that would be pointed out to him. Over a thousand years later, King Solomon built YHVH’s temple on this very site.  It stood for about 400 years until King Nebuchadnezzar’s armies destroyed it sometime in 587 B.C. It […]